Jennie S. Libby (b. Taylor) (1850-1934) was born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, and died in Cody, Wyoming. She married Charles P. Libby in Gorham, New Hampshire, in 1864. She moved to Chicago in the late 1860s where her husband co-founded and was president of Libby, McNeill & Libby Company, one of the largest canned food companies in the world. In 1886 he received Christian Science treatment from M. Bettie Bell, a student of Mary Baker Eddy's, and expressed interest in Libby studying with Eddy as well, although there is no record of her doing so. After her husband's death in 1895, Libby resided with her daughter's family for the rest of her life, first in Marquette, Michigan, then in Manhattan, New York, and finally in Wyoming. She spent much of her later life traveling and was said to have made fifteen trips around the world. She was a life member of the Chicago Woman's Club.

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